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This photograph depicts a close view of a female patient’s vulva, highlighting a perforation of the right labium minus resulting from genital myiasis, a fly larval infestation. In this case, the causative agent was the primary screwworm fly, Cochliomyia hominivorax.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Dr. Hernán Miranda Cueto; University of Trujillo, Peru
Creation Date: 1966
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